I've never had the need to make a complicated presentation, so never used Master Pages before. After today, I see now how they're absolutely necessary when making something more than my 10-slides-long-school-presentation.
The reason for me investigating this, is cause I'm thinking about applying for a go-oo GSoC project. Project details (copied from the go-oo page):
Make Impress master pages copyable
Currently, when in master page edit mode, the slide sorter has cut/copy/paste disabled. The task would be to add this missing functionality, and correctly handle masterpage-attached styles.
- Required skills/knowledge
- c++
- Difficulty
- easy
- Contact
- thb at openoffice.org
As soon I was explained this by the friendly mentor - I realized the problem - The master pages aren't copyable, which can be quite a pain when you're eager to create your own and not using the built-in ones.
Here's an interesting article about Master pages:
It seems like this issue is bugging quite a few people:
bug tracker:
wishlist:
forum:
It seems that the code that copies slides is quite complicated itself - so my next task is to get on debugging it to figure it out...
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